Presenter:

Authors:

Josefa Gregorio(Cal State Univ - San Marcos)

Jesus Perez(Cal State Univ - San Marcos)

Edwin Robles(Cal State Univ - San Marcos)

Justin Perron(Cal State Univ - San Marcos)

With support from the 2017 Society of Physics Students Future Faces of Physics award CSUSM students organized an outreach event for students at San Marcos Middle School which has a large population of minority students underrepresented in the STEM fields. The event involved a field trip to a planetarium and included various activities and discussions between the middle school students and CSUSM undergraduates. Pre and post surveys were administered in an attempt to gage efficacy of the outreach. This talk will describe the details of the activity, the results of the surveys, and how future iterations may be adapted in hopes of improving the events impact.